Anyone interested in the underlying basis of the complexity of today's science will enjoy this book. In this engaging and highly accessible book, Frank Wilczek shows how the vast edifice that is modern science was constructed with only a few ingredients and assumptions, but depended crucially on a way of thinking-about the nature of evidence and how it applied to the world around us. But if you showed them what we have created with that knowledge, they would think we were magicians. If you were to go back just two hundred years and tell people what we knew, from the origins of the universe to the molecular basis of life, and how weird and unintuitive nature is at the atomic scale, they would think we were crazy.
Steven Pinker, Johnson Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141985770 Number of pages: 272 Weight: 202 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪ gorgeous and inviting overview of the fundamental facts of physical reality. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way-bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.
With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world
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